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All you have to do is (to) sit and wait. So, what we did in this lecture was (to) create a new style for our activity ... It must be an infinitival verb phrase. Gerund-participial clauses (the -in …

He gave me the resources that are needed to reach a higher status. The noun phrase "the resources that are needed" is Od of "gave". Within that phrase is the relative clause "that are needed, which …

The leader created a term which the members of their group would use ____ to describe people who had never contributed to the community. The infinitival clause is a purpose adjunct in clause s …

[1] No one in the team possesses the ability which is required [to accomplish this task]. [2] The information needed [to make a rational decision] isn't provided. The infinitival clauses …

He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, [only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar]. It's the whole of the bracketed element that is …

I want to learn to drive my car to go to my workplace to earn money. It's fine syntactically, but a succession of four infinitival clauses is stylistically inelegant. You could simplify and say …

She appears [to be tired.] Yes, "tired" is an adjective functioning as subjective complement of "be". "Appear" is a catenative verb and the bracketed infinitival clause "to be tired" is its catenati …

[1] It is easy to beat him. [2] To beat him is easy. The infinitival clause in [1] doesn't modify anything. In Extraposition the "it" is a dummy element serving the syntactic purpose of filling the …

Do you want me [to take you to the airport]? No: not an object but a complement, on two counts: (i) "Want" is monotransitive, not ditransitive, so it cannot take an indirect object. (ii) Infinitival …

A friend to call would be nice. "To call" is not an adjective; it's category is 'infinitival relative clause' and its function is modifier of "friend". I went outside to sing. Here, the inf …

Infinitives don't function as nouns or any other part of speech. Their part of speech is verb and their characteristic function is that of head (or predicator) in a verb phrase. …

[1] Whether we be old and bald [2] Whether we are old and bald These both have the meaning, though the subjunctive form in [1] is considered overly-formal, perhaps even old-fashioned to some speaker …

We try [to be nice]. It's neither object nor adjective. "Try" is a catenative verb and hence this is a catenative construction. Modern grammar does not treat non-finite clauses as objects, but …

He is the first kid [to have been sent to Japan to study to become a doctor]. You are right, the infinitival clause does modify "kid", though it's better to call it an infinitival relative clau …

These factors can be something about the person or something about the situation, which can combine [to determine the consumer's motivation [to process product-related information at a given po …